On Monday 13 Jan 2014 13:17:13 Magnus Therning wrote:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Simon Hanna <simon.hanna@jesus.de> wrote:
Since ruby allready comes with a package manager (mentioned earlier), I never downloaded anything from the aur, but used rubygems instead. My question is, if we really need to have all these packages in the aur. Isn't it easier to manage everything with rubygems??
As someone who doesn't develop in Ruby at all, is it really true that ruby comes with a package manager (as defined here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Package_management_system)? In particular, does it support 1. removal of packages 2. non-ruby dependencies
* Yes, Rubygems is a package manager. * It is geared toward packaging ruby code and binary extensions. * It can remove packages entirely or clean out all but the latest version. * It can not handle non-ruby dependencies, except for those that can be compiled into a native ruby extension, which becomes part of the installed gem. * It wouldn't be a good choice for a language other than ruby. It is really quite domain- specific. Paul